How to make Tsukune?
Tsukune is a traditional Japanese dish. Japanese meatballs are meat balls first boiled in water, and then grilled. We used chicken meat, you can also diversify with pork or beef. This dish is prepared with homemade sauce from mirin, soy sauce, sugar, garlic and ginger. Japanese meatballs turn out a little sweet because of the sauce, but that’s the piquancy. If you want to add spice to this dish, then we recommend adding cayenne pepper flakes to the sauce.
When preparing Tsukune, we used a clever trick. Minced meat was formed with a measuring tablespoon and a small knife, so the hands do not get dirty with sticky minced meat. A spoon with minced meat was placed in hot water and the spoon was knocked several times on the bottom of the pan. The minced meat easily fell out of the spoon and the shape of the meatball remained round.
